THE SHOT — This is what you get when you wear American Eagle; be warned. Maybe sometimes it is better to be left out of the yearbook? [via]
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The Accidental ‘Fag’ Yearbook Picture
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daveny
Oh man that’s tough.
Red Meat
Epic fail
GayGOP
Those editors should be fired for that one.
ewe
oh that’s endearing. I hope this either happened to the fabulously out gay guy that finds this the statement of pride he always wanted to make or the high schools buffed up het quarterback that fell into deep mourning.
Michael Letterman
Branding what an amazing idea
Jon
@GayGOP: Why should the editors be fired? Because it’s bad to be a FAG? Self loathe much?
Tofer David
Editors of the school yearbook? You mean the member of the senior class that spends every free moment she has putting the yearbook together?
B
No. 6 · Jon wrote, “@GayGOP: Why should the editors be fired? Because it’s bad to be a FAG?”
Presumably because the student editors working on it (and who aren’t employed so they can’t be fired) didn’t catch a bad cropping job – the tee shirt probably said
EAG
LE
and someone didn’t notice how the cropping changed the wording. They could have fixed it with Photoshop.
Even “professionals” screw up. One right-wing web site had a policy of not using the word “gay” but “homosexual” instead. So they had some software do a string replacement. Then they printed an article about a talented runner named Tyson Gay and changed the title to “Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials,” thus getting their 15 minutes of fame as one of the nation’s laughing stocks. http://boingboing.net/2008/06/30/homophobic-news-site.html